BRI Belt and Road Initiative
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CMC-STC Central Military Commission Science and Technology Commission
CPC Communist Party of China
CVID Complete, Verifiable, Irreversible Dismantlement
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DMZ Demilitarized Zone
DPRK Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
EEU Eurasian Economic Union
FFVD Final, Fully Verified Denuclearization
GDP Gross Domestic Product
ICBM Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
IMEMO Institute of World Economy and International Relations
KCNA Korea Central News Agency
KCP Korean Communist Party
KPRA Korean People’s Revolutionary Army
KPA Korean People’s Army
KWP Korean Workers’ Party
MPS Ministry of People’s Security
MSS Ministry of State Security
MTDP Mid-Term Defense Program
NGO Non-Governmental Organization
NKVD People’s Commissariat for International Affairs (Soviet secret police)
NIS National Intelligence Service
NPT Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
OPLAN Operation Plan
PVA People’s Volunteer Army
PLA People’s Liberation Army
PRC People’s Republic of China
ROK Republic of Korea
SPA Supreme People’s Assembly
THAAD Terminal High Altitude Area Defense
USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
VCP Vietnamese Communist Party
WMD Weapons of Mass Destruction